Seminar Program Spring 2013
Seminars are on Tuesdays, 4:00-4:50 in Sanger Hall, 
2nd floor Room 2-020  (unless otherwise noted)

Jan. 15 Sterling Drug Lecture

Kathryn Cunningham, Ph.D., Director
UTMB Center for Addiction Research
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Host: Matthew Banks, Ph.D.

"Serotonin, impulsivity and cue reactivity: Implications for pharmacotherapy"
Jan. 22 Richard Moran, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Pharamcology and Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

"Activation of AMP-dependent kinase by Pemetrexed and lung cancer therapeutics"
Jan. 29 Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
Department of Chemistry
Neuroscience & Cancer Research Program
Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC

Host: Dana Selley, Ph.D.

"Endocannabinoid-mediated regulation of matrixmetalloprotease (MMP) activity: Implication in pathobiology of stroke and cancer"
Feb. 5 David Gewirtz, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Pharamcology and Toxicology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

"Autophagy inhibition as a therapeutic strategy in cancer or How negative data lead to unexpected insights"
Feb. 19 Everette May Lecture

Ursula Winzer-Serhan, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Host: Sandra Welch, Ph.D.

"The long-lasting consequences of developmental nicotine exposure"
Feb. 26 Ruth Ross, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON CANADA

Host: Aron Lichtman, Ph.D.

"Cannabinoid pharmacology: the shape of things to come"
Mar. 19 Ru-Rong Ji, Ph.D.
Professor, Chief of Pain Research, Dept. Anesthesiology
Duke University
Durham, NC

Host: Steve Negus, Ph.D.

"Neuro-glial and neuro-immune interactions in pain"
Apr. 2 Kathryn Gauthier, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Host: Yang Zhang, Ph.D.

"Lipoxygenase metabolites as inducible EDHFs"
Apr. 16 Olimpia Meucci, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Host: Kurt Hauser. Ph.D.

"Alteration of neuronal ferritin heavy chain (FHC) in HIV/drug abuse patients: relevance to CXCL12/CXCR4 function and HAND"
Apr. 30 Yavin Shaham, Ph.D., Senior Investigator
NIDA Intramural Research Program
Behavioral Neuroscience Branch
Baltimore, MD

Host: Darlene Brunzell, Ph.D.

"The role of conditioned drug effects in drug relapse"

For further information, please contact Sallie Sparks or Dr. Andrew Davies

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